matroxfb, anybody?

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Michel Lanners wrote:

> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Anybody successfull in running matroxfb with recent vger kernels?
> 
> I've tried using it alongside controlfb as a second framebuffer, but it
> doesn't initialize. Compiled-in, it only goes through the very first
> debugging message, and then nothing more;  while as a module insmod
> aborts (slightly older matroxfb.c (1.6c)) or hangs the system (most
> recent matroxfb.c (1.8)).
> 
> I've also tried to compile-in matroxfb without controlfb, but that
> failed because offb.c wasn't in (undefined ref to console_getmode et
> al.). I'm right now trying a recompile with OF support compiled in, but
> no framebuffer driver. Let's see....

I'm running matroxfb on a motorola MTX board (PReP machine) which does not
have open firmware. As a module, it crashes in ioremap (don't know why).
the framebuffer X server works. However VGA text mode doesn't work too
well.

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